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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
NINA KHRUSHCHEVA is the author of Imagining Nabokov and The Lost Khrushchev. She is a Professor of International Affairs at New School University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times, among others. You can sign up for email updates here.
A contributing editor at The Atlantic and author of the New York Times Notable Book Facing the Congo, Angry Wind, and River of No Reprieve, among others, JEFFREY TAYLER has reported on Russia and the former Soviet Union for Foreign Policy, Harper’s Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, National Geographic, and more. He lives in Moscow. You can sign up for email updates here.
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IN PUTIN’S FOOTSTEPS. Copyright © 2019 by Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Song lyrics from “Land of Bones and Ice” in chapter 11 © Vladimir Vysotsky, reprinted by permission of the Estate of V. Vysotsky (translated 2019 by Nina Khrushcheva).
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Khrushcheva, Nina L., 1962– author.|Tayler, Jeffrey, author.
Title: In Putin’s footsteps: searching for the soul of an empire across Russia’s eleven time zones / Nina L. Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler.
Description: First edition.|New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019.|Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018039821|ISBN 9781250163233 (hardcover)|ISBN 9781250163240 (ebook)